Moves to expose Chinese textile polluters

BEIJING – China’s Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), which collects pollution records from the textile industry and maps incidents on a public, on-line, database, is working with government officials to try and introduce a new pollution release and transfer register (PRTR) system – similar to those used in other developed industrial countries. The negotiations come shortly before new pollution disclosure regulations in China are enforced in January 2014. Ecotextile News reports from Shanghai.